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TIGHT END (1)--Senior Captain Steve Abbott (6-ft., 3-in., 225 lbs.) should get the starting and, with backup help from senior Bill McGagh and junior Bob Hoog. Whoever plays, don't expect Kellen Winslow. Harvard wants blocking front its tight end: peas receptions are icing on the cake. Last year's squad got nine receptions out of the right and position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Squad | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Cresskill, N.J. 83 Peter Mackie DT Wellesley, Mass. 84 Bob Hoog TE Cambridge, Mass. 84 Paul Wiesen DT Sharpaville, Pa. 85 Ed Boyle TE Bridgeport, Conn. 85 Ken Tarczy CB Mercer, Pa. 86 Mitch Newton SE West Terre Haute, Ind. 87 Jim Morris TE Melrose, Mass. 88 Steve Abbott TE Orono, Maine 89 Pete Miclach DE Scotch Plains, N.J. 90 John Lowenstein SE Arlington, Mass. 91 Bill Ross DE New Smyrna, Fla. 92 Mike Bunar MG Hanson, Mass. 93 Joe Walsh DT Wycoff, N.J. 94 Joe Lee TE Fort Wayne, Ind. 94 Mare Miller DT Niles, Mich. 95 Barry Ford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roster | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Canadians (two former journalists and a retired hockey goaltender) who dreamed up the game in 1979 were secreted in a motel on the outskirts of Toronto, crash-coursing the last 2,000 or so questions for the Genus II U.S. edition of Trivial Pursuit, due out next January. Scott Abbott and the brothers Chris and John Haney, multimillionaires and still in their mid-30s, could afford plusher accommodations, but, as Chris notes, "nobody bugs us, the phone doesn't ring, and we're only 20 feet from the motel bar." Strewn about the room are a globe, dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...visitors. "Who is the only U.S. President to have worn a Nazi uniform?" asks Chris Haney with an anarchic chortle. (Their answer: Ronald Reagan, in the 1942 movie Desperate Journey.) Then they turn back to their work, the Haneys calling out sample questions they have researched in advance, and Abbott, perched at the keyboard of a small computer, tinkering with the wording. ("I'm the only one who can chew gum and spell at the same time," he explains.) The choice of questions to be included depends entirely on their creators' reaction to them. "We trust each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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